TURKEY - Siempelkamp started at the end of July assembly work on the new Kastamonu Entegre forming and press line, with the 7' X 37.1 meter ninth-generation ContiRoll® for the production of particleboard in Samsun.

This leading – the No. 1 in Turkey, No. 4 in Europe and No. 7 in the world – producer of wood-based boards also placed an order in July for a modernization package for its Siempelkamp MDF line in Kastamonu City to be installed at the end of 2020.

These moves reaffirm the two companies’ strong partnership even during these difficult times caused by the restrictions imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The assembly work with startup scheduled for early 2021 means that the continuous forming and press line in Samsun – which is intended to replace the existing particleboard line at the Yontas location that was acquired in 2009 – is now entering its final phase.

Kastamonu is also currently relying on Siempelkamp support at another of its six locations in Turkey – at Kastamonu City, capital of the province of the same name in the country’s north, where a package by Siempelkamp Logistics & Service GmbH (SLS) – another one of Siempelkamp’s subsidiaries – is being installed to modernize an MDF line that is operating with a 7'-x-55.3-metre ContiRoll®. The package includes a light board package that will enable the customer to produce so-called light MDF (L-MDF) with raw densities down to 500 kg/m³.

Kastamonu Entegre currently operates eight Siempelkamp plants using continuous press technology in Turkey, Russia and Italy – the close links with Siempelkamp already started in 1969 with a plant for particleboard production in Kastamonu City.